...-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The state of the Teutonic Order in Prussia, or Ordensstaat (1228–1525), belongs to those ‘vanished kingdoms’ which—devoid of any contemporary heirs—remain on the margins of historical narratives about music. The aim of this article is to describe polyphonic practices...

...-owning elites ultimately chose to emancipate workers to induce their supply of effective labour and, thus, boost the return to physical capital. This hypothesis is empirically examined in the context of serf emancipation in nineteenth-century Prussia. Exploiting variation in proto-industrialization...

... On Death for the Fatherland , which drew inspiration from the earlier poetic exchange. patriotism Prussia Lessing Ewald von Kleist ‘ . . . the grave combats where life is at stake Are fought in prose. It was not always so’. Czeslaw Milosz ‘The twentieth-century tendency to view human love...

... German state was the antithesis to Prussia and all that it stood for. This early version of the official GDR identity combined a rejection of Prussia with an affirmation of progressive traditions in German history such as the revolution of 1848, the history of the German labour movement...

... the transnational public sphere and politics of the time through an investigation of how the periodical Berlinische Privilegirte Zeitung framed Prussia’s adversaries Austria, France and Sweden during the Seven Years War (1756–1763). The global struggle was accompanied by intense wars of words and in print...

...E. P HENNOCK © Oxford University Press 1998 SUMMARY There are three identifiable phases in comparing vaccination policy in England, Prussia, and Imperial Germany. (1) Prior to the 1870s the tradition of medical police in Prussia resulted in the vaccination of the population being treated...

...This chapter reviews The Jews of Poznań 1815–1848: Development of a Polish Jewry under the Rule of Prussia. It shows how this book enlarges our factual knowledge and enables us to correct the errors of older publications. It also shows in what way and why Polish Jews...

...In 1868–1869, in the wake of a hunger crisis, hundreds of Lithuanian Jews crossed Russia’s western border seeking help from small Jewish communities in East Prussia. Overwhelmed by claims for support, Prussian Jews turned to a newly founded Jewish aid association, the Paris-based Alliance Israélite...

...In the numerically largest mass expulsion undertaken between 1871 and 1914, approximately 30,000 Poles were expelled from Prussia between 1885 and 1886. Tracing press, bureaucratic, and parliamentary discussions of the expulsions, this chapter makes clear the level of threat attributed to Eastern...

... on Jewish migration’. ⁴ He is not alone here, with Till van Rahden similarly arguing that Prussia’s ‘anti-Semitic administrative practice culminated in 1885–86 in the expulsion of roughly ten thousand Polish and Russian Jews by the Prussian authorities’. ⁵ With 125 1885–86...

...The constitutional struggle between crown-executive and liberal parliament in Prussia, 1860-c.1866, catalysed by the army question, is defined as a form of abortive bourgeois revolution stymied by its excessively narrow base. Engel's contemporaneous study of the episode is anatomised for the light...

...Beyond the Barricades: Government and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary Prussia, 1848–1858. Anna Ross, Oxford University Press (2019). © Anna Ross. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198833826.003.0008 This chapter introduces the Prussian governments of the post-revolutionary period...

...Beyond the Barricades: Government and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary Prussia, 1848–1858. Anna Ross, Oxford University Press (2019). © Anna Ross. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198833826.003.0007 This chapter draws together the themes raised in the book. It reminds the reader...

...Between the 11th and the 13th centuries, the political map of Europe and the Mediterranean was transformed by a series of conquests which established, more or less securely, new ruling classes in countries as distant and diverse as Ireland and Palestine, Andalusia and Prussia. In these places a new...

... (Danzig), a peasant Reformation rising, and Christendom’s first territorial-princely Reformation, in Ducal Prussia. Christendom Clement VII Pope aftershocks apostasy apostates Austria Bohemia German Germany korona Kraków Lithuania Lutheran Lutheranism Małopolska Mazovia Poznań Royal...

...Figure 3.1 Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Duke of Prussia, by Lucas Cranach. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes Niedersachsen. Reproduced with permission. This chapter examines the amicable relationship between the famously pious King Sigismund and his Lutheran...

...How did the clerical leadership of the church in Poland and Prussia respond to the early Reformation? This chapter shows that paradoxical but ultimately ‘lax’ policy towards Lutheranism was not just a feature of royal government in this monarchy, but one also shared by the local church. Polish...

... doctrines, but of the seditious provocations of monks. ¹⁵⁰ In 1526, Duke Albrecht conceded that the Reformation revolts in Prussia might have put the Polish king off Lutheranism, but tried to distance ‘my faith’ from those 194 events. ¹⁵¹ He drew a careful distinction between...

... and Elbing (1525–6), the emergence of a Lutheran vassal state in Ducal Prussia (1525), a Reformation peasant rising (1525), widespread support for Wittenberg reform in the royal court, Polish cities, educational institutions and noble households throughout the 1530s, and the real possibility of a Lutheran...

.... It also focuses on the myths Königsberg's inhabitants constructed about the city and the province of East Prussia as they found themselves cut off from the mainland of the German Reich by the Polish Corridor. The chapter recounts how Königsbergers sought radical political solutions to the political...